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A06513	[A methodicall preface prefixed before the epistle to the Romanes ...] Made by the right reuerend father in and faithfull seruant of Christ Iesus, Martin Luther ...; Praefatio in Epistolam Pauli ad Romanos. English	Luther, Martin, 1483-1546.; Wilkinson, William, d. 1613, attributed name.; Watkinson, William, fl. 1573-1594, attributed name.	1632 (1632)	STC 16986; ESTC S105157	20,999	82

he reasoneth thus The Apostles argument It was therefore needfull and necessarie that Christ should bee sent who should make his righteousnesse to be ours by the new birth or regeneration in faith the spirit even as the old man Adam by propagation left vs his sinne through that old generation according to the flesh Againe by this argument aaother proposition is surely grounded namely that no man by his own strenth power is able to deliver him self from sin or to justifie himself For it was not in our choise to be borne or not to be borne of the old Adam according to the flesh which by other arguments is evident and cleare enough For if the law of God which surly if any other thing in the world might haue justified ought to haue prevailed and availed for righteousnes doth not only not justifie but rather increaseth augmenteth sinne in vs namely that grudging fretting of our nature dayly stomacking murmuring at God yea the more it doth presse vs the more it stirreth vp sinne in our nature Nitimur in vetitum semper cupimusque negata which goeth against all whatsoever is forbidden Therefore the more perfitly we know the law the more misery we behold in our selves and we see the better how that wee have more need of Christ Chap. 6. In the 6 chap. hee handleth that great and chiefe worke of faith to wit the warfare conflict of Christians betwixt the flesh the spirit The warfare of Christians For the flesh fighteth against the spirit and the spirit wageth warre against the flesh to the end that the desires of the flesh reliques of sinne which remaine in vs after iustificatiō might be quite suppressed quelled quenched in vs. And in this chap. the Apost teacheth that we are not so justified freed from sin by faith that sin is quite taken away and altogether abolished in vs Reliques of sinne but that the reliques of sinne as yet remaine in vs. Nevertheles these remnants of sinne are not laid to our charge by reason of faith which continually wrestles with the desires of the flesh wherfore as yet becaus we liue in the flesh that strife combat indureth in vs they that are already justified haue enogh to doe haue labour enough to turne them vnto yea all their lifetime they maye toyle vntill they sweat againe by indevouring to tame their fleshe to represse the lusts of it to make it subject vnto the Spirit Mortification And by that mortification of our flesh newnes of our spiritual life we expresse the Death and the Resurrection of Christ as also that signe of mortification in Baptisme which doth signifie and represent vnto vs no other thing but this continuall mortification of the flesh and dayly vivification quickning of the spirit For Baptisme that is this mortification doth work in vs so long vntill sin being abolished and abandoned by the death of our bodies wee rise in our bodyes with Christ and raigne with him for evermore And this thing namely the dayly mortificatiō of our flesh we may performe because we are not vnder the law but vnder grace Now what it is not to bee vnder the law What it is not to bee vnder the Law must not bee so vnderstood as though it were lawfull for vs to do what wee list but not to bee vnder the law is this that our hearts are so made new by the spirit through faith that freely willingly and of our owne accord wee may doe that which the lawe requyres though there were no lawe at all For grace doth endue vs with the loue of the law Wherefore we being justified haue no more the law against vs but agreeing with vs. To bee vnder the law What it is to be vnder the Law is to worke without grace and not to bee able to fulfill the lawe where there cannot choose but bee sinne And this now at length is the true liberty and freedome from the law and sin of which the Apostle heere disputeth even vnto the end of this Chap. As for this libertie it is such that wee may willingly from our hearts doe good without any exaction of the law Therefore it is a spirituall libertie which doth not take away the law but giveth and imparteth a certaine power and spirit to fulfill the law namely a cherefull mynde a ready will and fervent desire to worke well whereby it doth then satisfie the law insomuch that it hath not any thing to exact at his hand or to charge him withall A fit apt similitude Even as if thou were endebted to a certaine creditor of thine didst owe him a great summe of money thou mightest after two wayes satisfie him and so discharge the debt First by a free forgivenes of the debt and cancelling of thy handwriting Secondly by suretie of another man who will giue his faith and truth for thee promising to stand to the payment of all the foresaid money and so by his word and faith given for the obligation wherewith thou wast bound may be blotted and cancelled as voyde of none effect Likewise Christ hath delivered vs from the law as from a creditor Wherefore that libertie is not carnall wherby it is lawfull to do what thou wilt but is altogether laboursome and paynefull which willingly doth good workes so that it needs not any exaction of the law Chap. 7. In the seventh Chap. he confirmeth this by a certaine similitude of marriage betweene the husband and the wife For even as the woman if her husband be dead A simili●ude to ●roue the ●●berty frō●he law is delivered from the law of the man not so freed that shee may not marry but rather contrarie now first of al she is freed indeed and truely that shee may marry another man which she could not doe before she was deliuered from her former husband so also our conscience is dead to the lawe as long as old Adam liveth in vs. But when this olde Adam is mortified by the spirit there is then libertie for both parties like as I haue said there was betwixt man and wife But the conscience is not free so that it cannot at all doe any worke but rather so that now hee beginneth to cleaue vnto another even vnto Christ that it should bring forth fruite vnto God After this hee doth at large explicate the nature of sinne The natur● of sinne of the law shewing the lawe to bee the force and power of sinne For the olde Adam or nature how much more it is pressed downe by the law which of his owne strength hee cannot fulfill so much the more it doth fr●t and fume against it And no maruell seeing it can doe nothing of it selfe but sin Therefore the law is vnto it a punishment and death not that the law is evill but this is done through the fault of our owne nature